{"id":14304,"date":"2026-04-22T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/14304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:50:11","slug":"cheeky-european-airline-throws-shade-at-viral-toronto-blue-jays-menu-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/14304\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheeky European airline throws shade at viral Toronto Blue Jays menu item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays unveiled many new menu items at Rogers Centre this season, but one is still making headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers Centre&#8217;s cotton candy fries have gone viral on social media, with even a popular European low-budget airline getting involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[This is] another reason we don\u2019t fly to North America,&#8221; Ryanair joked on X.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">another reason we don\u2019t fly to North America <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ANsE9Zh9CZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ANsE9Zh9CZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Ryanair (@Ryanair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ryanair\/status\/2046560400724869287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While an Irish airline commenting on this might be a classic case of right message, wrong messenger (especially when it comes to cuisine), it wasn&#8217;t the only account that had a strong opinion about the Rogers Centre creation.<\/p>\n<p>Americans weighed in, saying the cotton candy fries<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CFBHome\/status\/2046331711231807493\" rel=\"nofollow\"> &#8220;look worse&#8221; than Skyline Chili<\/a>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0an Ohio tradition featuring chili served over spaghetti and topped with a mountain of shredded cheese. It&#8217;s a public bathroom&#8217;s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>The cotton candy fries<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/sports_play\/2025\/03\/toronto-blue-jays-new-food-lineup-cotton-candy-fries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> were first added to the Rogers Centre food lineup<\/a> ahead of the 2025 season. The dish consists of a bed of crispy fries with blue and white mayo drizzled over top, finished with bits of blue and white cotton candy as the final touch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reminder Dont Do It: The sauce is garlic &amp; paired w weird crunchy cotton candy\ud83e\udee0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bluejays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#bluejays<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6U4ngzOyES\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/6U4ngzOyES<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uu0yM4877E\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uu0yM4877E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Liz McGuire (@lizzzzzzzzzzy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzzzzzzzzzy\/status\/2046366747704307863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is definitely one of the more out-there items on the Blue Jays menu, but the sweet-meets-savoury snack was so popular last year, it&#8217;s back for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>It was not all hate toward the unusual creation. Many Europeans and Americans were also in disbelief that you could get a basket of fries at a professional sporting event for just C$12.49, which converts to under US$10 or \u20ac10.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this is something on our bucket list to try at a ball game this summer.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays unveiled many new menu items at Rogers Centre this season, but one is still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[530,7600,7599,7601,531,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-14304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-blue","9":"tag-candy","10":"tag-cotton","11":"tag-fries","12":"tag-jays","13":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}